In 1952, India's constitution set aside only 22.5 percent of seats and jobs for dalits or untouchables — who were at the absolute bottom of the caste ladder — and some very poor and "backward ...

Over 90% of Indian techies in the US are upper-caste Indians and many of them are allegedly making life a living hell for Dalits, those who are classified as the lowest of the low in India, whose ...

Residents of a Delhi slum fill buckets with water to clean mud from their huts after a monsoon rainfall in July. “Throughout human history,” Isabel Wilkerson writes, “three caste systems ...

Supporters of India's ruling Bharatiya Janata Party celebrate on Jan. 10, 2019, in Mumbai after India's Parliament approved a bill providing a 10 percent quota in government jobs for poor upper caste ...

The caste system has consequences that affect people all the way down to their DNA. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science , 2016. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1513197113 ...

When Indians migrated around the world, they took caste with them, just as B.R. Ambedkar, India’s foremost political theorist, anti-caste thinker, and the drafter of its constitution, had predicted.

In July, upper-caste men publicly flogged a group of Dalits - formerly considered "untouchables" - in Mota Samadhiyala village on the suspicion of slaughtering a cow, which Indians consider sacred.

This is the third part of an ongoing series, which traces the origins of India’s people and civilization. Previous parts can be found here: Unraveled: Where Indians Come From, Part 1, and, Where ...

They exhibit no admixture with "Ancestral North Indians" (ANI). This paper confirmed and clarified as well as that the proportion of West Eurasian related lineages increases both as a function of ...

Even though Dalit self-assertion has come a long way since the 1980s, Dalit voices remain subdued in mainstream Indian media and fiction. India’s upper-caste elite remain exclusive producers ...

NEW DELHI (AP) — India’s Parliament has approved a bill providing a 10 percent quota in government jobs for the poor members of upper castes who have been excluded from existing quotas for low ...